After Hardin left

Mystery's revealed~

Auden P.O.V

I motion to her, asking what was wrong. She looked at me and mouthed "later". She was still sniffling but she refused to make eye contact with me and mom. 

The day went on and after dinner, I cornered Emmie inside her room. 

"What?" was the first thing I asked her

"hm?"

"What the hell happened Emery?"

She took in a deep breath. "Mom lied."

Now I was seriously confused. "Mom lied about what?" 

"She lied about dad." I looked at her like she'd gone mad.

"So, in the morning, after the whole punching thing and meeting Natalie, I went to the bathroom. When I came out, I saw Hardin coming out of mom's room. I panicked and went over to see what he did. I checked the room for a good while and the only thing I found was a pen-drive. So, I had just got time to check it and...see it yourself."

Hardin popped up on to the screen 

"Hey baby" I heard his voice through the computer. "I know you're fuming, you must be! It's been so long since I've-"

"I love you so much but I really hope you'll understand where I'm coming from. I think I need a break from this-us. Our entire family"

(Guys, I swear I'll explain EVERYTHING in a separate a/n but just know, the writing style will be different from this point onwards because I'm not the actual author)

"I really hope that you'll understand one day. I also hope that you'll let me see the kids one day. Please remember that I love you and am so so so sorry for what I've done" 

He disappeared, the screen went black and the video ended

I looked at Em, still confused "Well? What did she lie about?"

She looked at me in disbelief. "She lied about Hardin giving up custody, she forced him too!"

Shock. That was the only emotion I felt. "Are you serious?"

A beat. I realized she was dead serious. My lips moved, without my brain registering the words that came out of them. I was confused, so confused in fact, my head had started to spin. I'd not eaten much all day so maybe that was it or maybe I was just tired. I don't know. But due to this inconvenience, my brain was on auto-pilot letting my mouth handle the questions.

"He did something really horrible, didn't he? Something that I STILL don't know about, right? Because it was that bad? Why would she keep us in such a "dangerous" environment then huh!?" 

"It wasn't THAT bad!

"You have to support me me on this, okay?"

"why!?"

"Look, you're too young to understand right now, just please, do as I say, alright?"

Now, I felt another emotion surge through me, frustration. She refuses to tell me anything because I'm apparently "too young" and expects me to blindly follow her and you know what? I wouldn't even have a problem with that if this was the first time she was asking me to do it because hey, at the end of the day, she's my sister and would never do anything to purposely hurt me, she's also 6 years older so, she must know what she's talking about. I also get that I'm pretty young and there are things I'm not ready to hear. However, this is a pattern of behavior from her and mom. They seem to always think I'm some defenseless baby who can't handle himself and use this as an excuse to hide things from me, things I have a right to know about like, I dunno, why my mother and sister hate my dad and what he's done to become the family out-cast. All I know is he left us for another woman which in my books, should be enough reason for everyone to hate him but mom said that he did something worse, something that's deeply inhumane, sociopathic and genuinely concerning. I've had my fair share of theories about what he's done but whenever I want to know more they never tell me and make me feel horrible for even asking. Emery knows though, why she knows and I don't, I'll never understand. What makes her so much more mature than me? Why can she know about things I can't?